Cosmo
The plot thickens. I phoned Dell today to check out a price for a PII!!!!Mhz, 256MB Ram, 20G hardrive and a TNT 32MB graf card and even had a credit card ready to pay a deposit.
But the salesman said I really ought to go for newer technology and that I should have a 667 processor (he was talking too fast for me to discover what make, then I forgot to check with him), 128MB of Rambus ("What on earth is that?", I asked) and he then gave me a mind boggling lecture on things called Level 4 cache, B system and trebled bandwidth.
He then said I should have a 20g hard drive, a G-Force graphics card with 64MB and 256 bits (bits of what?).
Well anyhow it was about £300 more than I wanted to spend, but the bloke said it was the bee's knees.
I put my credit card away and said I would let him know.
Also tried Carrera and got a quote for £1,300 for an Athlon 600, 258 MB of ordinary RAM, 20Gg hard drive, Matrox G400 graf card, DVD, sound card, five speakers, Win 98 and two-year on-site warranty.
Back to the drawing board for a while I reckon
cheers SS